"deny her intellectual and spiritual growth, according to Elizabeth Ermarth, ""They are norms according to which she is an inferior, dependent creature who will never go far in anything, and which consequently are a denial of her full humanity."" The story was adapted as a film, ""The Mill on the Floss"", in 1937, and as a BBC series in 1978 starring Christopher Blake, Pippa Guard, Judy Cornwell, Ray Smith and Anton Lesser. A single-episode television adaptation of the novel first was aired on 1 January 1997. Maggie Tulliver is portrayed by Emily Watson and Mr Tulliver by Bernard Hill. The"
"for Catholic Emancipation). The novel includes autobiographical elements and reflects the disgrace that George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) experienced while in a lengthy relationship with a married man, George Henry Lewes. Maggie Tulliver is the protagonist and the story begins when she is 9 years old, 13 years into her parents' marriage. Her relationship with her older brother Tom, and her romantic relationships with Philip Wakem (a hunchbacked, sensitive and intellectual friend) and with Stephen Guest (a vivacious young socialite in St Ogg's and assumed fiancé of Maggie's cousin Lucy Deane) constitute the most significant narrative threads. Tom and Maggie"
"George Eliot's character Tom Tulliver in ""The Mill on the Floss"" (1860), all refer to the line ""My Name is Norval"". Young George Osborne recites it, eliciting tears from his aunt, in Thackeray's ""Vanity Fair."" I1847-48) p. 504. Harry Walmers in Dickens' ""The Boots at the Holly Tree Inn"" also refers to it: There is also another reference to Norval in ""Nicholas Nickleby"", when Wackford Squeers, while in custody, refers to his son as ""a young Norval"", supposedly the darling of the town. Rev. George B. Cheever, American divine and abolitionist, references it in his 1857 broadside ""God Against Slavery""."
"have a close yet complex bond, which continues throughout the novel. Their relationship is coloured by Maggie's desire to recapture the unconditional love of her father before his death. Tom's pragmatic and reserved nature clashes with Maggie's idealism and fervor for intellectual gains and experience. Various family crises, including bankruptcy, Mr Tulliver's rancorous relationship with Philip Wakem's father, which results in the loss of the mill and Mr Tulliver's untimely death, intensify Tom's and Maggie's differences and highlight their love for each other. To help his father repay his debts, Tom leaves school to enter a life of business. He"
"Toibin in 1971 and they divorced in 1995. George is currently married to Tom McCabe. Her first published novel was ""A Great Deliverance"" (1988). It introduces Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley, actually Lord Asherton, privately educated (Eton College and Oxford University); his partner Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers, grammar school educated and from a working-class background—both from Scotland Yard; Lady Helen Clyde, Lynley's girlfriend; and Lynley's former school friend Simon St. James. George's first novel, ""A Great Deliverance"", was favorably received by the mystery fiction community. It won the Agatha Award for ""Best First Novel"" in 1988 and the 1989 Anthony Award"
"scientist and explorer, finds adventure with newspaperman Whiz Walton and a gargantuan Texan named Gulliver. A double spiral symbol, designed by Tom's father, appears on the spine of the books, and sometimes figures in the plot. In the first book, Tom discovers that his father, long believed dead, may still be alive, and, in the second, Tom, Whiz, and Gulliver travel to Central America in search of him. The third and fourth books are also loosely connected, after which each book stands alone. The plots usually involve some kind of criminal activity thwarted by Tom and his pals. Tom Quest"
"the book, far from allowing himself to be exploited, Tom stands up for his beliefs and is grudgingly admired even by his enemies. Eliza is a slave and personal maid to Mrs. Shelby who escapes to the North with her five-year-old son Harry after he is sold to Mr. Haley. Her husband, George, eventually finds Eliza and Harry in Ohio and emigrates with them to Canada, then France and finally Liberia. The character Eliza was inspired by an account given at Lane Theological Seminary in Cincinnati by John Rankin to Stowe's husband Calvin, a professor at the school. According to"
"falls through the top floor of the barn made by Matt. He is fat and greasy, according to him. George appears in the 5th book of the series, Oblivion. He is one of the Villagers. He lived with Rita, John and Holly in Oblivion. He works at the local village bakery. George is at home when Holly comes in to tell them about Jamie Tyler. When Jamie comes to stay at Rita and John's house, it appears that George is jealous of him and the attention . He doesn't talk to him. At school, Jamie and George get into a"
"(1965), and ""The Owl Service"" (1967). The latter work is an adaptation of the myth of Blodeuwedd from the ""Mabinogion"", set in modern Wales, and for it Garner won the annual Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's best children's book by a British author. Mary Norton wrote ""The Borrowers"" (1952), featuring tiny people who borrow from humans. Dodie Smith's ""The Hundred and One Dalmatians"" was published in 1956. Philippa Pearce's ""Tom's Midnight Garden"" (1958) has him opening the garden door at night and entering into a different age. The heroine of ""Charlotte Sometimes"" by Penelope Farmer (1969)"
"Elizabeth George Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949) is an American writer of mystery novels set in Great Britain. She is best known for featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley, 20 in number as of 2018. The first eleven were adapted for television by the BBC as earlier episodes of ""The Inspector Lynley Mysteries"". Elizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio, the second child of Robert Edwin and Anne (née Rivelle) George. She has an older brother, author Robert Rivelle George. Her mother was a nurse, and her father a manager for a conveyor company. The family moved to the San"
"in the same category. It was nominated for an Edgar Award in 1988. Elizabeth George Susan Elizabeth George (born February 26, 1949) is an American writer of mystery novels set in Great Britain. She is best known for featuring Inspector Thomas Lynley, 20 in number as of 2018. The first eleven were adapted for television by the BBC as earlier episodes of ""The Inspector Lynley Mysteries"". Elizabeth George was born in Warren, Ohio, the second child of Robert Edwin and Anne (née Rivelle) George. She has an older brother, author Robert Rivelle George. Her mother was a nurse, and her"
"life were by Robert Heinlein, and they were all great."" Early in Robinson's career, Heinlein even helped to support Robinson financially during an especially difficult period; Robinson was especially grateful because he knew that Heinlein, who at the time was supportive of the war in Vietnam, knew of Robinson's fervent opposition to the war. Robinson is also an admirer of mystery writer John D. MacDonald. Lady Sally McGee, from the Callahan's series, is apparently named in honor of Travis McGee, the central character in MacDonald's mystery novels. The lead character in ""Lady Slings The Booze"" frequently refers to Travis McGee"
"Tom a Lincoln Tom a Lincoln is a romance by the English writer Richard Johnson, published in two parts in 1599 and 1607. The principal character, Tom, is a bastard son of King Arthur and a girl named Angelica. He is the father of two other important characters, the Black Knight and the Faerie Knight. Part I begins with the story of Tom's birth: he is the product of an illicit affair between King Arthur and Angelica, the Lord Mayor of London's daughter. To conceal their adultery, Arthur and Angelica secretly send their child to be raised by Antonio, a"
"T. Waxflatter, Elizabeth's uncle, a retired Brompton professor and inventor. He also meets Master Snelgrove, the Chemistry teacher, Mrs. Dribb, the school's nurse, Professor Rathe, the fencing instructor, who warns Holmes that he is too emotional and impulsive. Meanwhile, a mysterious hooded figure uses a blowpipe to shoot Bentley Bobster and Reverend Duncan Nesbitt with hallucinogenic thorns, causing the men to experience nightmare-like hallucinations (Bobster thinks to be attacked by a cooked bird and by his own objects, while Nesbitt thinks he sees a glass mosaic knight killing a king in his own window and then taking his life and"
"The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Lewis Taylor, which was later made into a short-running television series on ABC from September 1963 through March 1964, featuring Kurt Russell as Jaimie, Dan O'Herlihy as his father, ""Doc"" Sardius McPheeters, and Michael Witney and Charles Bronson as the wagon masters, Buck Coulter and Linc Murdock, respectively. Taylor's realistic novel—despite the Tom-Sawyer-like protagonist and narrator, it is aimed at an adult audience and contains episodes that would have kept it off any school list at the time—was published in 1958 and"
"Tom Sawyer Thomas Sawyer () is the title character of the Mark Twain novel ""The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876). He appears in three other novels by Twain: ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884), ""Tom Sawyer Abroad"" (1894), and ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"" (1896). Sawyer also appears in at least three unfinished Twain works, ""Huck and Tom Among the Indians"", ""Schoolhouse Hill"" and ""Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy"". While all three uncompleted works were posthumously published, only ""Tom Sawyer's Conspiracy"" has a complete plot, as Twain abandoned the other two works after finishing only a few chapters. Tom Sawyer is a boy of about"
"taking Emmeline with her. When Tom refuses to tell Legree where Cassy and Emmeline have gone, Legree orders his overseers to kill Tom. As Tom is dying, he forgives the overseers who savagely beat him. Humbled by the character of the man they have killed, both men become Christians. Very shortly before Tom's death, George Shelby (Arthur Shelby's son) arrives to buy Tom's freedom but finds he is too late. On their boat ride to freedom, Cassy and Emmeline meet George Harris' sister and accompany her to Canada. Cassy discovers that Eliza is her long-lost daughter who was sold as"
"to George, who later becomes known as ""Chicken George"" when he becomes his father's cockfighting trainer. Chicken George is a philanderer known for expensive taste and alcohol, as much as for his iconic bowler hat and green scarf. He marries Matilda and they have six sons and two daughters, including Tom, who becomes a very good blacksmith. Tom marries Irene, a woman originally owned by the Holt family. When Tom Lea loses all his money in a cockfight, he sends George to England for several years to pay off the debt, and he sells most of the rest of the"
"Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim travel to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" and ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"", the story is told using the first-person narrative voice of Huck Finn. It is a sequel, set in the"
"singing sons of the Kissel family on the wagon train. The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters is a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel written by Robert Lewis Taylor, which was later made into a short-running television series on ABC from September 1963 through March 1964, featuring Kurt Russell as Jaimie, Dan O'Herlihy as his father, ""Doc"" Sardius McPheeters, and Michael Witney and Charles Bronson as the wagon masters, Buck Coulter and Linc Murdock, respectively. Taylor's realistic novel—despite the Tom-Sawyer-like protagonist and narrator, it is aimed at an adult audience and contains episodes that would have kept it off"
"Twilight, an orphan great grey owl who learned his survival instincts from the ""Orphan School of Tough Learning"", Digger, a burrowing owl, who lost his family to the St. Aggie's marauders and is extremely sensitive and philosophical, and the old Mrs. Plithiver, Soren's former nest-maid western blind snake. With the help of Hortense's two bald eagle friends named Streak and Zan, they kill two of St. Aggie's patrols, the cousins Jatt and Jutt the long-eared owls. The four owls form a band and fly away in search of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, where legend says the great knight-owls live who"
"eventually finds a measure of success, restoring the family's former estate. Maggie languishes in the impoverished Tulliver home, her intellectual aptitude wasted in her socially isolated state. She passes through a period of intense spirituality, during which she renounces the world, spurred by Thomas à Kempis's ""The Imitation of Christ"". This renunciation is tested by a renewed friendship with Philip Wakem, with whom she had developed a friendship while he and Tom were students. Against the wishes of Tom and her father - who both despise the Wakems - Maggie secretly meets with Philip and they go for long walks"
"introducing Maggie Tulliver ""who is explicitly compared with Hamlet"". Scholar Marianne Novy suggests that Eliot ""demythologises Hamlet by imagining him with a reputation for sanity"", notwithstanding his frequent monologues and moodiness towards Ophelia. Novy also suggests Mary Wollstonecraft as an influence on Eliot, critiquing ""the trivialisation of women in contemporary society"". ""Hamlet"" has played ""a relatively small role"" in the appropriation of Shakespeare's plays by women writers, ranging from ""Ophelia, The Fair Rose of Elsinore"" in Mary Cowden Clarke's 1852 ""The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines"", to Margaret Atwood's 1994 ""Gertrude Talks Back""—in her 1994 collection of short stories ""Good Bones"
"cigarette. Appeared also in ""The Rich Pay Late"". Alfie Schroeder – Decent journalist. Friend of Tom Llewyllyn and best man at his wedding. Appeared also in ""The Sabre Squadron"" and ""The Rich Pay Late"". Donald Salinger – Printer and former partner of Jude Holbrook. A major character in ""The Rich Pay Late"". Vanessa Salinger – Née Drew. The very promiscuous wife of Donald Salinger. A major character in ""The Rich Pay Late"". Friends in Low Places (novel) Friends in Low Places is Volume II of the novel sequence ""Alms for Oblivion"" by Simon Raven, published in 1965. It was the"
"Brownlow and Rose; he is disowned and sent to the West Indies, and Oliver, escaping the clutches of the crazed Sikes, returns to the Brownlow household, and is welcomed. It is the Artful Dodger, rather than Oliver, who visits the condemned Fagin in prison, and goes to his public execution. Sikes's dog finds Dodger and the two disappear into the crowds together. Fagin has genuine concern for Oliver in this version. Oliver Twist (2007 miniseries) Oliver Twist is a 2007 British television adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel ""Oliver Twist"", written by Sarah Phelps and directed by Coky Giedroyc. It consists"
"mistaken for Jenny Cameron, the supposed lover of Bonnie Prince Charlie. Goodnatured characters are often moderately loyalist and Anglican, or even supporters of the House of Hanover, while ill-natured characters (Mrs Western) or mistaken ones (Partridge) can be Jacobites, or (like Squire Western) anti-Hanoverian. 1963 saw the release of ""Tom Jones"", a film written by John Osborne, directed by Tony Richardson and starring Albert Finney as Tom. It inspired the 1976 film ""The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones"". The book has also been the basis of three operas: by François-André Philidor in 1765 (see Philidor's opera); by Edward German in"
"sweet and good, like her brother. At first she works as a governess to a wealthy family with several nasty brats. Later in the novel she and Tom set up housekeeping together. She falls in love with, and marries, Tom's friend John Westlock. Mark Tapley, the good-humoured employee of the Blue Dragon Inn and suitor of Mrs Lupin (the Dragon's owner), leaves that establishment to find work that's more of a credit to his character: that is, work sufficiently miserable that his cheerfulness will be more of a credit to him. He eventually joins Young Martin Chuzzlewit on his trip"
"dog. The cottage is haunted by the ghost of its former owner Daniel Gregg, a 19th-century sea captain, played by Edward Mulhare. Charles Nelson Reilly plays wacky local man Claymore Gregg, who rents the cottage to Mrs. Muir without telling her it is haunted by his ancestor. The book of the same name, by R.A. Dick, was published in 1945. It was brought to the silver screen in 1947 with Gene Tierney playing Mrs. Muir and Rex Harrison as Captain Gregg. While the movie had been a romantic fantasy combining comic and dramatic elements, the series focused much more on"
"the first gothic novel, Horace Walpole's ""The Castle of Otranto""). The Overlook Hotel acts as a replacement for the traditional gothic castle, and Jack Torrance is a tragic villain seeking redemption. King has also referred to author Shirley Jackson. ""Salem's Lot"" opens with a quotation from Jackson's ""The Haunting of Hill House"", and a character in """" references the Jackson book ""We Have Always Lived in the Castle"". King's book ""11/22/63"" mentions the Jackson story ""The Summer People"". King is a fan of John D. MacDonald, and dedicated the novella ""Sun Dog"" to MacDonald, saying ""I miss you, old friend."""
"Molly, George and Tommy as they move to the village of Chuffington-on-Sea with their mother Gail (Jessica Hynes) and set out to save the village from their landlord Mr Thorne (John Sessions) and his cat Faustus. Pudsey is voiced by comedian David Walliams. From December 2012 to January 2013, Ashleigh and Pudsey performed at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking in ""Dick Whittington"" opposite Stephen Mulhern. The deal is believed to have been worth around £150,000. From December 2013 to January 2014, Ashleigh and Pudsey performed in ""Dick Whittington"" opposite Jodie Prenger at the Opera House, Manchester. From December 2014 to"
"Elliott played him in the television movie of ""The Empty Copper Sea"", entitled ""Travis McGee"" (1983). The latter relocates McGee in California, eliminating the Florida locales central to the novels. In addition, Elliott kept his trademark brushy mustache, thoroughly distancing himself from the clean-shaven, brush cut look McGee maintains in the books. In the first film Meyer was played by Theodore Bikel, and in the second by Gene Evans. In 1967, author MacDonald refused permission for a television series about Travis McGee and his cases, feeling people would stop reading the novels were Travis McGee regularly on television. Comedian Dan"
"drawings by W. A. Rogers (1854-1931). A sequel, ""Mr. Stubb’s Brother"", was published in 1883. ""Toby Tyler"" is a ""bad boy"" novel, meant to teach a lesson what happens to boys who do bad things; other examples include George W. Peck's ""Peck's Bad Boy"" (1883), Thomas Bailey Aldrich's ""The Story of a Bad Boy"" (1870), and Mark Twain's ""Adventures of Tom Sawyer"" (1876). As with Mark Twain's ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" (1884), also about a conscience-stricken escaped and wandering orphan boy (written following the success of ""Toby Tyler""), most readers don't remember ""Toby Tyler"" for its wholesome message, but as"
"time following the title story of the Tom Sawyer series. Tom Sawyer Abroad Tom Sawyer Abroad is a novel by Mark Twain published in 1894. It features Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn in a parody of adventure stories like those of Jules Verne. In the story, Tom, Huck, and Jim travel to Africa in a futuristic hot air balloon, where they survive encounters with lions, robbers, and fleas to see some of the world's greatest wonders, including the Pyramids and the Sphinx. Like ""Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"" and ""Tom Sawyer, Detective"", the story is told using the first-person narrative voice"